[Please CC me, I’m not subscribed to the list] Dear node.js maintainers,
My prospective package julia (ITP: #691912) has libuv among its dependencies. I am therefore considering the possibility of having a libuv package in Debian. If I understand correctly, libuv is a subproject of node.js, and the current node.js binary is (statically) linked against it. I am therefore wondering if you would be willing to create a libuv-dev package out of the current nodejs source package. Of course, I would be willing to submit a patch against node.js to achieve this. An alternative would be to create an independent libuv source package that I would (co-)maintain (and of course you would be more than welcome as co-maintainers). The last solution would be the statu quo: having both node.js and julia embed their own copy of libuv. I think this is not a desirable solution, for obvious reasons. Another issue is whether a shared library can be produced. Upstream seems to provide only a static binary, and I don't know if they commit to API/ABI tracking and versioning. In the worst case, a static only library is still useful (especially in combination with the new Built-Using field introduced in Policy 3.9.4). I look forward to hear your thoughts. Regards, -- .''`. Sébastien Villemot : :' : Debian Developer `. `' http://www.dynare.org/sebastien `- GPG Key: 4096R/381A7594
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